DHS Enforcement Priorities Updates
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (July 22, 2022)
This resource provides a summary and FAQ of the recent federal court ruling regarding DHS immigration enforcement priorities.
Immigrant Children’s Medicaid and CHIP Access and Participation: A Data Profile
Valerie Lacarte, Migration Policy Institute (June 2022)
This policy brief discusses the state of immigrant children’s eligibility and coverage by Medicaid and CHIP in 2019.
Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming
Ben Brokaw & Leya Speasmaker, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (June 2020)
This resource provides key steps for organizations in the design, implementation, evaluation, and reassessment of immigrant integration endeavors.
Community Integration Toolkit
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (June 21, 2022)
This resource accompanies CLINICS’s “Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming” to provide additional information content and worksheets to support integration projects.
Five years later: A timeline of migrant family separations
Aline Barros, VOA News (July 2022)
This article provides an overview of what has happened in the 5 years since the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
Biden admin. pushes court to revive ‘Dreamers’ immigration program
Daniel Wiessner, Reuters (July 6, 2022)
A Biden administration lawyer has entered an appeal to get rid of the ruling blocking the DACA program from receiving new applications.
Children separated from relatives at the border could be reunited under new Biden program
Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times (July 8, 2022)
The new Trusted Adult Relative Program is being tested at Border Patrol stations in TX to reunify children with family members.
U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen Helps Introduce Bicameral Bill to Protect Immigrant Children in Government Custody
Sierra Sun Times (July 18,2022)
The newly introduced Children’s Safe Welcome Act aims to establish new standards for the safety and well-being of migrant children in federal custody by integrating child welfare best practices.
Crenshaw bill would allow longer custody of migrant minors, mandate DNA testing of families
Adam Shaw, Fox News (July 19, 2022)
The Flores Settlement Update and Establishment Act of 2022 has been introduced by Texas Representative Crenshaw, aiming to extend the length of time that immigrant minors can be held in U.S. custody from 72 hours to 120 days and to require DNA testing of family units.
New details revealed in plan for immigrant children facility in Greensboro
Steve Doyle, Greensboro News (July 19,2022)
Additional details about plans for a new facility for unaccompanied minors in Greensboro, NC have been released.
